Transfer-pad holder.



W. F. BEUTHER.

TRANSFER PAD HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 28. 1914.

PatentedSept. 28, 1915.

WILLIAM F. BEU'IH ER, OF LOUISVILLE,

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KENTUCKY, ass-xenon or onn-rnmn'ro EDWARD (JOHN AND ONE-THIRD 'TORICHARD G TAFEL, BOTH 0F LOUISVILLE,

KENTUCKY.

To all @01 2. am it may concern 7 Be it known that I, ,WILLIAM F.Bnu'rrmn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in thecounty of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Transfer- Pad Holders, of which the following isa specification. p

This invention relates to means for holding and manipulating street cartransfer pads.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and easilyapplied device by means of which a pad of street car transfers can beconveniently held by a conductor in the act of punching and ofseparating one or more transfers from the pad, and whereby the pad whennot in use may be hung in a convenient, available position, for instanceon the part of the car near where a conductor is stationed or to a beltor to a part of the clothing of a conductor.

Further the object is, to provide means for connecting a punch to atransfer pad in position to render it capable of immediate andconvenient use.

With these objects in view the invention consists of the device havingthe novel generic and specific features of construction substantially ashereinafter described.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a transfer pad having my improvedholder attached thereto, and showing in outline the position assumed bythe left hand of a user inmanipulating a punch and in separating thetransfers; and, Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the holder separatedfrom the pad.

The holder consists generally of a main portion 1, preferably composedof wire and which is of a length corresponding to the width of thetransfer pad 2, and the arms 3 and 4. The portion 1 of the holder isadapted to lie along the back of the pad, and each end is bent atright-angles forming the arms 3 and 4 which are separated a distanceapart corresponding to the width of the transfer pad. The arm 3 hasformed with it an en largement 5 which is preferably in the form of aloop or ring and is of sufficient size to form a firm bearing surfaceagainst which may be pressed the thumb of a user in hold ing the padfirmly in order to punch a slip or to separate one or more slips fromthe TRANSFER-PAD Bonnier..-

Specification of Letters Patent. i Pafirgntgd sgpi 28,1915, Applicationfiled November 28, 1914. Serial No. 874,891. i

pad. The opposite arm has formed with it an eye v6 to which isdetachable or perma nently attached a flexibleconnection such as hook,bar, or the like in a car, or if desired to a belt or other portion ofthe equipment or clothing of a conductor. i

The holder is preferably, as herein shown, formed of a single piece ofwire, bent back upon itself, having the hook formed of the doublethickness of metal, twisted adjacent to the juncture of the hook withthe main portion 1 to give rigidity to the article, and havingtheenlargement 5 formed integral with one arm and'the eye formedintegral with the other arm.

In the use of the holder, a pad of transfers is forced between the arms3 and 4 and retained thereby, by frictional contact. When one or moretransfers are to be punched and then separated from the pad, the pad mayconveniently be grasped by the left hand of the conductor as indicatedin Fig. 1 of the drawing, with the index finger lying along the top ofthe pad and with the thumb resting against the face of the loop 5, andwith the remainder of the fingers resting on the back of the pad. Thisgives a firm hold on the pad and permits the free use of the right handin using the punch which is attached as shown to the holder at theopposite side to that at which the ring or loop 5 is located. The firmhold afforded by the holder permits of the quick and accu rate punchingof the transfers and of the tearing of the separate transfers from thepad, thus saving time and preventing accidental wrongful punching ortearing of the transfers as frequently occurs when a pad as usually heldis handled.

I claim:

A holder for transfer pads formed of a single piece of wire bent backupon itself constituting a double portion, a hook formed of such doubleportion, one end of the wire extending laterally of the double portiontion of the back of a transfer pad, the end of such arm being bent at anangle thereto and in substantially the same plane there With, and havingits end bent into a loop forming a finger-engaging enlargement, theother end of the Wire" also extending laterallyof the doubleportion andin an opposite direction to the first-mentioned end forming a secondarmadapted to lie along h ema ing Po t on, of the b k of sa same plane, andhaving an eye formed in its r pad, the end of the second arm being bentat an angle thereto and in substantially the end.

g In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of twoWitnesses.

I 7 WILLIAM F. BEUTHER.

Witnesses: v

F. W. WVILLIG,

EDWARD COLIN.

Odpi esof this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, V Washington, D. C. I

